A Personal Word

Custom Songs for Real Stories

Some stories are too strange, too tender, too funny, too heavy, too sacred to fit into a greeting card.
Some things need a melody.
Some things need to be said out loud—beautifully, awkwardly, honestly.

That’s what A Personal Word is.

I write custom songs for real people with real lives. The messy kind. The joyful kind. The kind that still ache. I listen to your story and turn it into a song that sounds like it always existed—like it was waiting for you to hear it back.

Decades of writing have brought me here on this journey, for both you and me. These songs can be funny, devastating, uncomfortable, grotesque, holy, hopeful, or all of the above. Sometimes they say too much. Sometimes they say exactly the thing you’ve never been able to say. Either way, they come from the heart, and they’re written to honor your story.